Sarwar Danish

Sarwar Danish (born 1961) was the Vice President of Afghanistan from 2014.

Biography
Sarwar Danish was born in 1961 in the village of Ashtarlay, Daykundi Province, in the Kingdom of Afghanistan and he left after gaining secondary education. He studied law, journalism, and Islamic studies outside of Afghanistan and wrote 15 books and 700 academic essays. From 1982 to 2001 he worked in publishing, and in 2004 he became Governor of Daykundi Province and Minister of Justice under the government of Hamid Karzai. On 29 September 2014 he took office as Vice President under Ashraf Ghani, the new president.